Outlook 2003 rules and junk mail problem

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I recently upgraded to Outlook 2003, and I have a rule
that moves email sent to a particular address to a
particular folder other than the inbox. The problem is
that when this rule is active, the junk mail filter does
not work. If I uncheck this rule the junk mail is
filtered, but mail isn't moved to the correct folders.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
 
I recently upgraded to Outlook 2003, and I have a rule
that moves email sent to a particular address to a
particular folder other than the inbox. The problem is
that when this rule is active, the junk mail filter does
not work. If I uncheck this rule the junk mail is
filtered, but mail isn't moved to the correct folders.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
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Great question! It is a problem that many have experienced
(including myself) and have inquired about on these groups. As far as
I can tell there is no fix or workaround for this yet. It is a real
snafu and we can only hope that a fix is on the way. Does anyone know
if MS is aware of this annoyance and if they are working on a
solution???
 
seems to be sporadic, I need to find something that works just to get past
the massive mailing s of porno and drug spam.
 
Apparently OL runs the spam filter *after* running user-
defined rules. Not very useful if you have multiple
accounts and want to keep their messages separated.

We either need a new choice of when to run a rule
(e.g. "...Check messages after spam filtering") or have
OL always run spam filtering first, then user-defined
rules.
 
A correction. I've been watching the folder activity, and
it seems as though the spam filter does run first.

When I click 'send receive', the junk mail folder gets
some new messages, then it empties out and my 'other
account' folder gets new messages.

It looks like the user-defined rules come along AFTER the
spam filter has dont its work and moves the messages that
had already been selected as spam.

Maybe there's some way to have rules only look in the
inbox. That would resolve the problem.
 
Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:34:55 -0500, Rick ha scritto ben 17 righe per dire:
Great question! It is a problem that many have experienced
(including myself) and have inquired about on these groups. As far as
I can tell there is no fix or workaround for this yet. It is a real
snafu and we can only hope that a fix is on the way. Does anyone know
if MS is aware of this annoyance and if they are working on a
solution???
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I have exactly the same problem. I have tried to play a lot with visual basic,
but though I was able to access property of a new message (thru the new
NewMailEx event), I don't know how to stop the rules itself (I think that's is
clear that rules are applied on a junk mails also...).
It appear to be a big problem, that actually prevent use of junk mail feature
when you are using normal rules.
I wonder what Microsoft will answer...

Claudio.
 
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